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1.Elvis Costello & The Attractions (What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding

(3.31) 2.Elvis Costello & The Attractions Oliver’s Army (2.58) 3.Elvis Costello Watching The

Detectives (3.44) 4.Elvis Costello Alison (3.21) 5.Elvis Costello & The Attractions (I Don’t Want

To Go To) Chelsea (3.07) 6.Elvis Costello & The Attractions Accidents Will Happen (2.59)

7.Elvis Costello & The Attractions Pump It Up (3.14) 8.Elvis Costello & The Attractions I Can’t

Stand Up For Falling Down (2.06) 9.Elvis Costello & The Attractions Radio Radio (3.05)

lO.EIvis Costello & The Attractions Clubland (3.42) 11.Elvis Costello Good Year For The Roses

(3.07) 12.Elvis Costello & The Attractions Man Out Of Time (5.26) 13.Elvis Costello

& The Attractions I Wanna Be Loved (4.47) 14.Elvis Costello & The Attractions Everyday

I Write The Book (3.52) 15.The Costello Show featuring his Confederates Indoor Fireworks

(4.07) 16.Elvis Costello & The Attractions Shipbuilding (4.49) 17.Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach

This House Is Empty Now (5.06) 18.Elvis Costello & The Attractions I Want You (6.41)

19.Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach God Give Me Strength (6.08)

This compilation © 1999 Universal Music TV, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited. © 1999 Universal Music TV, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited. Marketed and distributed in the U.K. by Universal Record Operations Limited, P.O. Box 1420,1 Sussex Place, Hammersmith, London, W6 9XS. Copyright exists in all records issued by Universal Record Operations Limited. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, reproduction, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting prohibited. The copyright in this sound recording is owned and is licensed in the UK and Eire to Universal Music TV, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited. Place of manufacture stated on label. 545 103-2 07314MM LC 07341 UN 900 BIEM/MCPS

1. Elvis Costello & The Attractions (What’s So Funny ’Bout) F*eace, Love & Understanding p.3i)

(Lowe) Produced by Nick Lowe/Engineered by Roger Bechirian. Published by Plangent Visions Music Ltd. © 1979 Elvis Costello Ltd.* Available on the album "Armed Forces"

2. Elvis Costello & The Attractions Oliver’s Army (2.58)

(Costello) Produced by Nick Lowe/Engineered by Roger Bechirian. Published by Sideways Songs adminstered by Plangent Visions Music Ltd. © 1979 Elvis Costello Ltd.* From the album "Armed Forces"

3. Elvis Costello Watching The Detectives (3.43)

(Costello) Produced by Nick Lowe. Published by Sideways Songs adminstered by Plangent Visions Music Ltd. ® 1977 Elvis Costello Ltd.* From the album “My Aim fs True"

4. Elvis Costello Alison (3.2i)

(Costello) Produced by Nick Lowe. Published by Sideways Songs

adminstered by Plangent Visions Music Ltd. ® 1977 Elvis Costello Ltd.* From the album "My Aim Is True"

5. Elvis Costello & The Attractions (I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea o.oa)

(Costello) Produced by Nick Lowe/Engineered by Roger Bechirian. Published by Sideways Songs adminstered by Plangent Visions Music Ltd. © 1978 Elvis Costello Ltd.* From the album "This Year’s Model”

6. Elvis Costello & The Attractions Accidents Will Happen <3.00)

(Costello) Produced by Nick Lowe/Engineered by Roger Bechirian. Published by Sideways Songs adminstered by Plangent Visions Music Ltd. ® 1979 Bvis Costello Ltd.* From the album “Armed Forces”

7. Elvis Costello & The Attractions Pump It Up (3.i4)

(Costello) Produced by Nick Lowe/Engineered by Roger Bechirian.

Published by Sideways Songs adminstered by Plangent Visions Music Ltd, ® 1978 Elvis Costello Ltd.‘From the album "This Year’s Model”

8. Elvis Costello & The Attractions I Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down (2.06)

(Banks/Jones) Produced by Nick Lowe/Balanced by Roger Bechirian, Published by Mews Music ® 1980 Elvis Costello Ltd.* From the album "Get Happy!!"

9. Elvis Costello & The Attractions Radio Radio (3.05)

(Costello) Produced by Nick Lowe/Engineered by Roger Bechirian. Published by Sideways Songs adminstered by Plangent Visions Music Ltd, ® 1978 Elvis Costello Ltd.* From the album "This Year’s Model"

10. Elvis Costello & The Attractions Clubland 0.42)

(Costello) A Nick Lowe Production in association with Roger Bechirian, Published by Sideways Songs adminstered by Plangent Visions Music

Ltd, ® 1980 Elvis Costello Ltd,* From the album "Trust”

11. Elvis Costello Good Year For The Roses p.oej

(Jerry Chestnut) Produced by Billy Sherill/Engineered by Ron ‘Snake’ Reynolds - assisted by ‘Fast’ Eddy Hudson. Published by EMI Music Publishing. ® 1981 Elvis Costello Ltd.* From the album "Almost Blue"

12. Elvis Costello & The Attractions Man Out Of Time (5.26)

(Costello) Produced by Geoff Emerick from an original idea by Elvis Costello, Assisted by Jon Jacobs. Published by Sideways Songs adminstered by Plangent Visions Music Ltd. ® 1982 Elvis Costello Ltd.* From the album "Imperial Bedroom" ' -.

13. Elvis Costello & The Attractions I Wanna Be Loved (4.47)

(Famell/Jenkins) Produced by Clive Langer & Alan Winstanley assisted by Bob Kraushaar. Published by Burlington Music Company Ltd. © 1984 Elvis Costello Ltd.* From the album "Goodbye Cruel World"

14. Elvis Costello & The Attractions Everyday I Write The Book 0.52) (Costello) Produced by Clive Langer & Alan Winstanley assisted by Gavin Greenaway & Colin Fairley. Published by Sideways Songs admin¬ stered by Plangent Visions Music Ltd. ® 1983 Elvis Costello Ltd.* From the album "Punch The Clock"

15. Elvis Costello Show featuring his Confederates Indoor Fireworks <4.o7)

(Costello) Produced by J.Henry (T-Bone) Burnett & Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus with Larry Kalman Hirsch.

Published by Sideways Songs adminstered by Plangent Visions Music Ltd. © 1986 Elvis Costello Ltd.* From the album "King Of America"

16. Elvis Costello & The Attractions Shipbuilding (4.50)

(Langer/Costello) Produced by Clive Langer & Alan Winstanley assisted by Gavin Greenaway & Colin Fairley. Published by Sideways Songs adminstered by Plangent Visions Music Ltd/Warner Chappell Music Ltd. ® 1983 Elvis Costello Ltd.* From the album “Punch The Clock"

17. Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach This House Is Empty Now (s.oej (Bacharach/MacManus) Produced by Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach. Recorded, Engineered & Mixed by Kevin Killen. Published by New Hidden Valley Music/WB Music Corp./Sideways Songs/Plangent Visions Music, Inc. (ASCAP) © 1998 Mercury Records From the album "Painted From Memory"

18. Elvis Costello & The Attractions I Want You (6.40) (MacManus) Produced by Nick Lowe with Colin Fairley. Published by Sideways Songs adminstered by Plangent Visions Music Ltd. ® 19^£^^^afalo Ltd.* From the album "Blood & Chocolate”

19. Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach God Give Me Strength (e.os)

(Bacharach/MacManus) Produced by Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach. Recorded, Engineered & Mixed by Kevin Killen. Published by New Hidden Valley Music/WB Music Corp/Fead Bach Music admin by Windswept Music/Sideways Songs administered by Plangent Visions Music Ltd. ® 1998 Mercury Records.

From the album "Painted From Memory"

20. Elvis Costello She (3.06)

(Aznavour/Kretzmer) Produced by Trevor Jones, arranged by Julian

Kershaw. L.S.O. conducted by Geoffrey Alexander. Published by Essex International Inc. © 1999 Island Records Ltd.* From the soundtrack album "Notting Hill”

Musicians1. EC & The Attractions 2. EC & The Attractions 3. EC: Guitar & Vocals, Steve Nieve: Piano & Organ, Andrew Bodnar: Bass, Steve Goulding: Drums 4. EC: Guitar & Vocals, John McFee: Guitar and Pedal Steel, Sean Hopper Piano, Organ & BV’s, Johnny Ciambotti: Bass & BV’s, Mickey Shine: Drums, Nick Lowe: Backing Vocals 5. EC & The Attractions 6. EC & The Attractions 7. EC & The Attractions 8. EC & The Attractions 9. EC & The Attractions 10. EC & The Attractions 11. EC: Guitar & Vocals, Steve Nieve: Piano & Organ, Bruce Thomas: Bass, Pete Thomas: Drums, John McFee: Lead Guitar & Pedal Steel, Tommy Millar Fiddle, Nashville Edition: Background Vocals 12. EC & The Attractions 13. EC & The Attractions with Gary Bamicle: Saxophones, Jim Paterson: Trombone, Luis Jardim: Percussion, Vocals: Green 14. EC & The Attractions with The "TKO” Homs, Caron Wheeler & Claudia Fontaine: Backing Vocals 15. EC: Guitar & Vocals, James Burton: Acoustic Guitar, L.H.C: Acoustic Guitar, Jerry Scheff: String Bass, Mitchell Froom: Hammond Organ 16. EC & The Attractions with the ‘TKO’ Homs (Jim Paterson, Jeff Blythe, Paul Speare and Dave Plews), Caron Wheeler & Claudia Fontaine (Afrodiziak): Backing Vocals, Chet Baker Trumpet Solo, David Bedford: String Arrangements, Morris Pert: Percussion 17. EC: Vocals, Burt Bacharach: Conductor, Dean Parks: Guitar Solo, Dave Coy: Fretless Bass, Frank Marocco: Musette, Rob Schrock: Keyboards, Belinda Whitney-Barratt: Violin Solo 18. EC & The Attractions 19. EC: Vocals, Burt Bacharach: Conductor & Piano, Flugel Homs: Lew Soloff & Uoyd B. Stripling, David Carey: Vibes, Lawrence Feldman: Alto Flute, Rob Mounsey: Keyboard, Chris Parker Drums, David Spinozza: Guitar, T-Bone Wolk: Bass, Violins: Elona Barere, David Nadien, Marti Sweet, Richard Sortomme, Laura Seaton, Barry Finclair, Jan Mullen, Paul Peabody, Donna Tocco & John Pintavalle, Violas: Julien Barber & Sue Pray, Cellos: Mark Onin Shuman 8. Richard Locker. 20. EC: Vocals, Clem Clemson: Guitar, Dave Hartley: Piano, Frank Ricotti: Vibes, Trevor Barry: Bass, Paul Clarvis: Drums.

The Attractions are: Steve Nieve: Keyboards, Bruce Thomas: Bass and Pete Thomas: Drums

Special thanks to: Lew Difford, Gill Taylor, Susan Coelho, Steve Maidment & Trudie Frith @ By Eleven, James Bedbrook & James White @ Demon, Tony Wheatley @ Resolution.

Original front cover photograph: Chris Gabrin Front sleeve design is dedicated to ‘Barney Bubbles'

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